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PRG2TAP small update

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

As part of the update to 1.8 PRG2TAP allows the injection of payloads into CBM ROM Loader and Turbo Tape 250 Header blocks that load at $033c instead of just those that load at $0351. The area $033c-$0350 will just … Continue reading →

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More on Freeload

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

As the weather has been rubbish pretty much all weekend I decided to do some reversing of the Freeload loader using Cabal, one of my favourite games ever, as reference. By the time I finished, I was able to reassemble … Continue reading →

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Freeload support available in PRG2TAP version 1.7

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

PRG2TAP packages with support for saving data using the Freeload format are available as per below: Windows 32 bit package Linux 64 bit package OSX i386 package RPi2 package (untested and unsupported) I also added an option to override the leading … Continue reading →

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PRG to TAP: 1.5 release ready

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

I’ve checked the Turbo Tape utility that shows Stephan Senz Freiburg as author and I was able to confirm that there’s no silence written to tape between header and data blocks so I removed it in prg2tap 1.5. Another thing I noticed … Continue reading →

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PRG to TAP: Turbo Tape 250 masterer available for testing too

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

I’ve updated my PRG to TAP tool in order to allow users to produce TAP files using the universally known Turbo Tape 250 format. A preview version for Windows users is available here. Here’s the output from the usage text: PRG to … Continue reading →

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More development on the PRG to TAP tool

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

I managed to add a few options to the PRG to TAP tool. Worth mentioning are: the ability to append data to an existing TAP file, rather than always writing a new one the ability to inject a file into … Continue reading →

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PRG to TAP conversion tool available for Windows users

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Luigi Di Fraia

I decided to publish my PC version of the PRG to TAP conversion tool as it might come handy to somebody else too. You can grab the executable for Windows (32/64 bits) at this link. The one feature worth underlying is the … Continue reading →

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